Featured Board of Advisors

JUERGEN HELLMICH

iSAM NORTH AMERICA

Hellmich is the founder and CEO of iSAM North America (iSAM NA), which was established in the United States in 2008. The company’s roots stem from its German counterpart, iSAM AG, also founded by Hellmich in the industrialized city of Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany, in 1983. He received a doctoral degree from the University of Aachen, and has more than 33 years of professional experience within the field of automation technology.

MARCOS NETO

BLUE FISH

Neto is the owner of Blue Fish, a digitally focused advertising agency that helps small- and medium-sized organizations overcome obscurity. He is a member of the board for Fuse Project, and he and his team are also behind the website MobileAL.com. Blue Fish was named the Mobile Area Chamber’s Small Business of the Year in 2018. He is a graduate of James Madison University with a bachelor’s degree in English and the Chamber’s and U.S. Small Business Administration’s Emerging Leaders program.

WILLIAM BRY SHIELDS

MCGILL-TOOLEN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

Shields is president of McGill-Toolen Catholic High School. He was ordained to the priesthood on Dec. 15, 1984, and has served St. Ignatius, St. Mary and St. Pius X, where he is currently pastor. Shields earned a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University; a master’s degree in divinity from Yale University; and a master’s degree in education from the University of South Alabama. He is past president of Mobile Rotary Club.